It's 2 p.m. on a sunny Sunday. B is 36 years old. Sai krishna climbs out of the front seat of his rental maruti Swift Desire and holds the back door open for his parents, wife, and little daughter to exit. They stroll onto the narrow pavement, the wind buffeting them, and gaze out across the Godavari. The small girl is stunned by the river, but Sai krishna directs her attention to the massive cement blocks that restrict the water's passage, as well as the rotors beneath, explaining the basic physics of the world's largest lift irrigation project. He shakes his head and adds admiringly to the rest of his family, "KCR has done work."

About 15 kilometers away, at the busy Mukteshwara Swami Devasthanam temple in the heart of kaleshwaram village, 52-year-old Koppa Rao dismissively sweeps the irrigation project's accolades away. "Don't listen to the visitors. Inquire with the locals. How long will we continue to vote for kcr because of Kaleshwaram? That dam has now become a symbol of his ineptitude. "It's his family's ATM," Rao explained.

The destiny of Telangana's 119 seats will be decided between these two assessments: growth on the one hand and charges of corruption on the other. The kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP), which was inaugurated in 2019, is one of India's most ambitious irrigation projects, aiming to use 200,000 million cubic feet of water from the Godavari to irrigate 4.5 million acres over 13 districts in northern Telangana. It was KCR's crowning achievement, the personification of his administration's development identity, built at an estimated cost of approximately 80,000 crore, completely paid by the state government.
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28/11/2023 07:57 AM